Abstract:
Professors and deans are frequently the target of good natured jokes. In the case of the former the punch line usually relates to absentmindedness; in the latter it is seldom complimentary and may concern any of a variety of idiosyncracies. No one ever tells a joke-about departmental administrators collectively. This can be interpreted in one of two ways. Either they play such an unimportant role in the academic community that they deserve to be snubbed, or they are so variable as a class that no story could be applicable to the majority. As a department head, myself, I prefer to reject the first option leaving me no alternative but to accept the second.
Keywords:
departmental administrators, faculty
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